These additional games will come as a free update for those who buy the collection. Contra: Hard Corps – known as Contra: The Hard Corps in Japan.Contra III: The Alien Wars – known as Contra Spirits in Japan.Super C – known as Super Contra in Japan.
Super Contra (Arcade) – known as Super Contra: Alien No Gyakushu in Japan. On top of these variants, players will also receive the Japanese versions of six Contra games: The name change was likely done to disassociate the series from the Iran-Contra conflict, which carried through subsequent European releases, including Super Probotector, the European launch of Contra III. Probotector (a portmanteau of protector and robot) originally launched in Europe with two robotic protagonists, RD008 and RC011, as replacements for Bill and Lance, and many human enemies also became robots. Operation C was the first handheld entry in the franchise, and was the first to feature the homing gun.Ĭontra on NES includes new content and added features from the arcade version while Contra on Famicom also includes these features, as well as visual updates from the NES version. It also includes branching paths that require players to make decisions in key stages, and this is the first time it’s been re-released since the Sega Genesis. 
While four of these titles had already been announced for the Contra Anniversary Collection, the newly-revealed additions give longtime fans a wide-array of Contra experiences they may not have had the chance to play in the past, including regional variants.Ĭontra: Hard Corps was the first game in the franchise where players could choose between four characters, and was primarily a side-scrolling game as opposed to the overhead segments seen in earlier titles.
The full Contra Anniversary Collection lineup includes:
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